(Phys.org)—Plasmonic gold nanoparticles make pinpoint heating on demand possible. Now Rice University researchers have found a way to selectively heat diverse nanoparticles that could advance their use in medicine and industry.
Nanomaterials
Jan 3, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) to study the feasibility of using a new technique to ...
Waves do not spread in a disordered medium if there is less than one wavelength between two defects. Physicists from the universities of Zurich and Constance have now proved Nobel Prize winner Philip W. Anderson's theory ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 20, 2012
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(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers working in the Netherlands has conducted an experiment that sheds new light on the phenomenon known as Extraordinary Optical Transmission (EOT)—where light is able to shine ...
(Phys.org)—An astronomer from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is leading a global study to help find holes in dust clouds.
Space Exploration
Dec 19, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Tanya Zelevinsky's Pupin Hall lab is home to a sprawling contraption of gangly wires, metal pipes and chambers, and flashing lights. Inside a container that opens up like a porthole is a glowing blue dot—a ...
General Physics
Dec 19, 2012
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In 1654, Rembrandt van Rijn painted his famous Bathsheba, which depicts King David's wife naked at her bath. The painting has been regarded as an icon for breast cancer since the 1980s, after two Australian surgeons had interpreted ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 13, 2012
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(Phys.org)—As technology advances, it tends to shrink. From cell phones to laptops—powered by increasingly faster and tinier processors—everything is getting thinner and sleeker. And now light beams are getting smaller, ...
General Physics
Dec 7, 2012
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(Phys.org)—An international research team led by David Smith of Duke University has created a new type of light absorbing material that is far cheaper to make than conventional methods. They describe their polymer coated ...
(Phys.org)—A microscale technique known as optical trapping uses beams of light as tweezers to hold and manipulate tiny particles. Stanford researchers have found a new way to trap particles smaller than 10 nanometers - ...
Nanophysics
Dec 4, 2012
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